Sensors
Browse our extensive range of sensor modules and breakout boards, covering temperature, distance, motion, touch, liquid level, radar, infrared, and more. Whether you're building with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or your own custom PCB, you'll find the right sensor for your project.
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SparkFun Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7263 NIR (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14351 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7263 breakout brings near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy to your microcontroller projects. The sensor measures six discrete NIR wavelengths, allowing you to characterise how different materials absorb and ...
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SparkFun Spectral Sensor Breakout - AS7262 Visible (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-14347 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun AS7262 Visible Spectral Sensor Breakout brings spectroscopy to the palm of your hand, making it easy to measure and characterise how different materials absorb and reflect different wavelengths of light. ...
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Grove - Alcohol Sensor
SKU: SS-101020044 | Brand: Seeed Studio
Alcohol sensor is semiconductor sensor for alcohol detection. It has good sensitivity and fast response to alcohol, suitable for portable alcohol detector. Specifications Power requirements: 5 VDC @ ~120 ...
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HIH-4030 Humidity Sensor Carrier
SKU: PL-1643 | Brand: Pololu
Sparkfun’s carrier board for the HIH-4030 relative humidity (%RH) sensor from Honeywell outputs an analog voltage that varies nearly linearly with humidity. It operates at 5 V while drawing only 200 μA and ...
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Methane Gas Sensor MQ-4
SKU: PL-1633 | Brand: Pololu
This semiconductor gas sensor detects the presence of methane (CNG) gas at concentrations from 300 ppm to 10,000 ppm, a range suitable for detecting gas leaks. The sensor’s simple analog voltage interface re...
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Pololu Carrier with Sharp GP2Y0D815Z0F Digital Distance Sensor 15cm
SKU: PL-2465 | Brand: Pololu
This small digital distance sensor detects objects between 0.5 cm and 15 cm (0.2″ and 6″) away. With its quick response time, small size, low current draw, and short minimum sensing distance, this sensor is ...
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Pololu 38 kHz IR Proximity Sensor, Fixed Gain, Low Brightness (irs05a)
SKU: PL-2461 | Brand: Pololu
Discontinuation notice: These original (irs05a) versions of our 38 kHz IR proximity sensors have been replaced by newer (irs05b) high-brightness and low-brightness versions. The main changes are the locations o...
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SparkFun Atmospheric Sensor Breakout - BME280
SKU: SF-SEN-13676 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun BME280 Atmospheric Sensor Breakout measures barometric pressure, humidity, and temperature in a compact package. Whether you're building a weather station, home automation system, or indoor air quality mo...
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25m Long Distance ToF Laser Sensor (±3cm Accuracy, 100Hz, 100K LUX Resistant)
SKU: DF-SEN0647 | Brand: DFRobot
The TOFSense F2 is a high-performance laser distance sensor using dTOF (Direct Time-of-Flight) technology. With 25m range, ±3cm accuracy, and 100Hz refresh rate, it's ideal for robotics, industrial automation, drones,...
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Adafruit STHS34PF80 IR Presence / Motion Sensor
SKU: AF-6426 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit STHS34PF80 is a compact IR presence and motion sensor that detects human and animal presence up to 4 metres away — without requiring a lens. Unlike traditional chunky PIR sensors with simple digital outpu...
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GY-68 BMP180 Digital Barometric Pressure Sensor Board Module
SKU: LB-LR0100 | Brand: Little Bird
Elevate your project with the GY-68 BMP180 Sensor Module, a compact and highly accurate digital barometric pressure sensor designed for precision measurements in various applications.Product Specifications: Item Name...
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MyoWare 2.0 Wireless Shield
SKU: SF-DEV-23387 | Brand: SparkFun
The MyoWare® 2.0 Wireless Shield is designed to take in readings from the MyoWare 2.0 Muscle Sensor and wirelessly transmit sensor data with the ESP32-WROOM! This shield also includes a built-in LiPo battery to remote...
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Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Receiver - STEMMA JST PH 2mm
SKU: AF-5939 | Brand: Adafruit
The Adafruit Infrared IR Remote Receiver is a sensitive, wide-range 38 kHz IR receiver board with two selectable sensor orientations — one vertical and one horizontal. A slide switch lets you choose which sensor to re...
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SparkFun Mini Linear 3D Hall-Effect Sensor - TMAG5273 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-23881 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun TMAG5273 Qwiic Mini Linear 3D Hall-Effect Sensor is a low-power, high-precision magnetic field sensor that can detect a magnetic field's presence, strength, and direction in three dimensions. This board i...
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SparkFun Mini Spectral UV Sensor - AS7331 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-23518 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Mini Spectral UV Sensor features the AS7331 from ams OSRAM, measuring ultraviolet radiation across three dedicated channels: UVA (320–400 nm), UVB (280–320 nm), and UVC (200–280 nm). Each channel has its ...
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MyoWare 2.0 Power Shield
SKU: SF-DEV-21868 | Brand: SparkFun
The MyoWare® 2.0 Power Shield is designed to easily power the MyoWare 2.0 Muscle Sensor for remote applications. The MyoWare Power Shield is equipped with snap connectors on the board so you can easily stack it to the...
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SparkFun Mini Human Presence and Motion Sensor - STHS34PF80 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-23253 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic Mini Human Presence and Motion Sensor is built around the STHS34PF80 Low-power, high-sensitivity infrared (IR) sensor for presence and motion detection from STMicroelectronics. This sensor features ...
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SparkFun GNSS Combo Breakout - ZED-F9P, NEO-D9S (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-GPS-22560 | Brand: SparkFun
With GNSS, you can know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there anywhere on Earth within 30 seconds. This means the higher the accuracy, the better! Our versatile global positioning combo breakout pair...
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SparkFun Micro Temperature Sensor - STTS22H (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-21273 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun STTS22H Micro Temperature Sensor is a Qwiic-enabled breakout board based on the ultralow-power, high-accuracy, digital temperature sensor STTS22H from ST Microelectronics and housed in our Qwiic Micro for...
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SparkFun Micro Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout - BMA400 (Qwiic)
SKU: SF-SEN-21207 | Brand: SparkFun
The SparkFun Qwiic BMA400 Micro Triple Axis Accelerometer Breakout offers a 3-axis acceleration sensor perfect for ultra-low-power applications on an easy-to-use Micro Qwiic format breakout board. Dubbed the first "re...
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